books.google.com - A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world....https://books.google.com/books/about/Latin_Or_The_Empire_of_a_Sign.html?id=jgeV5UEKWggC&q=Church&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLatin, Or, The Empire of a Sign